Ken Tucker reviews the new album from Daft Punk, Random Access Memories:

I freely admit that, until the new Random Access Memories, I wasn&amp;#8217;t much of a fan. I could appreciate the craft and imagination that went into creating the French duo&amp;#8217;s mixture of electronic genres &mdash; techno, house, disco &mdash; but the mechanical repetitions and heavily filtered vocals didn&amp;#8217;t turn me on in any other way. But now, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have come up with an album that exposes the human side of their musical impulses. It&amp;#8217;s the equivalent of removing the helmet-masks the pair invariably wears in public performances. Random Access Memories is a collection filled with music that suggests mad romance, heartache and an embrace of the past that&amp;#8217;s never merely nostalgic or sentimental.

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